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Missionary Homes established for the use of Missionaries 
and their families while on furlough, held in 
trust by The University of Wooster, 
Wooster, Ohio 


HELPFUL MEMORIALS 


For many years it has been the policy of the Presby- 
terian Foreign Board of Missions to grant to its mission- 
aries a year’s furlough every five to six years. This much- 
needed rest is largely spent by the missionary where he 
can be in touch with his children during their educational 
period. It is frequently with the greatest difficulty that 
the missionary finds an available furnished house, the rent 
of which is not prohibitive. 


THE JULIA GLEASON HOME 


Before her death, Mrs. Samuel Mather, of Cleveland, 
hearing of the need of such homes, directed the President 
to purchase a suitable house, at her expense, for the 
exclusive use of our foreign missionaries on furlough. 
This was done and the Home was named “The Julia Gleason 
Home,” in loving memory of Mrs. Mather’s mother, Mrs. 
Julia Gleason Stone, who was always deeply interested in 
foreign missionary work, and a member of the Old Stone 
Church in Cleveland. This Home was occupied during the 
year 1907-1908 by Rev. H. M. McCandliss and family from 
Hoichow, Hainan, China; by Rev. A. A. Fulton, D. D., 
and family, during the year 1908-1909, from Canton, 
China; by Dr. M. B. Carleton and family, during the year 
1909-1910, from Sabathu, India; by Rev. A. B. Dunlap and 
family, during the year 1910-1911, from Bangkok, Siam; 
by Rev. W. S. Lehman and family, during the year 1911- 
1912, from Lolodorf, West Africa; by Rev. W. J. Clark 
and family, during the year 1912-1913, from Lahore, India; 
and by Mrs. W. E. Vanderbilt and family, during the year 
1913-1914, from Zilacuaro, Mexico. 















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THE JULIANA LONG HOME 


Mr. L. H. Severance, who, four years before his death, 
spent sixteen months visiting and studying the Missions 
of the Presbyterian Board in the far East, learned of the 
anxiety of the missionaries who were about to leave for 
America on their furlough, concerning an abiding place 
for the year’s rest. This suggested to him the purchasing 
of two additional homes, at Wooster, Ohio, to be occupied 
solely by our foreign missionaries who may be spending 
their furlough at Wooster. These two homes were selected 
in the heart of the city, within easy access to The Univer- 
sity of Wooster, and were completely renovated and fur- 
nished by Mr. Severance and dedicated to the memory of 
two noble women. 4 

One is called “The Juliana Long Home.” Juliana Long 
was the wife of David Long, of Cleveland, Ohio. She was 
born on September 19th, 1794, at Aurora, N. Y., and came 
to Cleveland in 1806. She was married to Dr. David Long 
in 1811, and died in Cleveland, July 2d, 1866, at the age 
of 72 years. Her husband, Dr. David Long, was the 
earliest physician and surgeon of Cleveland. He was born 
in Hebron, N. Y., September 29th, 1787, and died September 
21st, 1851. Dr. and Mrs. Long were the grandparents 
of Mr. L. H. Severance. They were both members of | 
the Old Stone Church in Cleveland, and very active in all 
Christian and benevolent work, especially foreign missions. 
Therefore, in blessed memory of his grandmother, Mr. 
Severance has named one of the homes, “The Juliana Long 
Home.” This home was occupied during the year 1908- 
1909 by Dr. O. R. Avison and family from Seoul, Korea; 
by Dr. D. G. Collins and family, during the year 1909-1910, 
from Chiengmai, Laos, Siam; by Rev. F. P. Gilman and 
family, during the year 1910-1911, from Kachek, Hainan, 
China; by Rev. T. H. Candor and family, during the year 
1911-1912, from Bogota, South America; by Rev. W. E. 
Browning and family, during the year 1912-1913, from 
Santiago, Chili; and by D. Willard Lyon and family, during 
the year 1913-1914, from Shanghai, China. 








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THE SARAH ADAMS HOME 


The second home Mr. L. H. Severance honored by 
naming it “The Sarah Adams Home.” His grandmother 
was especially interested in Miss Sarah C. Van Tine, who 
was the first lady school teacher in Cleveland. Miss Sarah 
C. Van Tine was married to Rev. Samuel Adams in 18384. 
The ladies of the Old Stone Church, prominent among 
whom were the mother and grandmother of Mr. Severance, 
fitted out Mrs. Adams for her missionary journey to 
Natal, South Africa. 

Mrs. Sarah C. Adams was the first lady missionary 
sent out to foreign lands by the Presbyterian church in 
Cleveland. She was in South Africa twenty years. Her 
husband died and was buried there. Mrs. Adams re- 
mained there a few years afterward and then returned to 
America. She greatly desired to go back to her work at 
Natal, but the Board declined to send her again, believing 
that her years and delicate health made it unwise for her 
to return. She made her home, the last years of her life, 
part of the time with the grandmother and mother of 
Mr. Severance and part of the time at his own home in 
Pennsylvania. She died at his mother’s home in Cleveland 
on the first day of November, 1870, after a brief illness. 
Her work in the mission field was eminently successful, 
and the memory of herself and husband is a hallowed one 
to this day in Natal, South Africa. This home was 
occupied during the year 1909-1910 by Rev. Isaac Boyce, 
D. D., and family, from Jalapa, Mexico; by Rev. W. O. 
Elterich and family, during the year 1910-1911, from 
Chefoo, China; by Rev. F. W. March and family, during 
the year 1911-1912, from Beirut, Syria; by Mrs. W. O. 
Elterich and family, during the year 1913, from Chefoo, 
China; and by Rev. A. G. McGaw and family from Etah, 
India, during the year 1913-1914. 


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THE Lucy CROUCH LEAMAN HOME 


Two years later, Mr. L. H. Severance purchased 
another home for the use of missionaries on furlough and 
named it “The Lucy Crouch Leaman Home,” in memory 
of one of Wooster’s most distinguished missionaries who 
died at her post at Kuling, China, October 9th, 1910. She 
was catalogued with the class of ’75. At the close of that 
year, our Brainerd Missionary Society held a little fare- 
well service for her as she went from us to be Wooster’s 
first missionary. She was sent to China. There she 
labored thirty-seven years. After a few years on the field 
she married the Rev. Charles Leaman. She was known, 
all through China, as a devoted teacher who witnessed in 
all her walk in life the power of Christ in touch with a 
human soul. At Nanking, where most of her life was 
spent, the memorial service was given a touching beauty 
as the school girls with white bands of mourning filed in 
a tearful line into the church, the little orphans among them 
carrying garlands. Who can measure the significance of 
this one life freely planted as seed for thirty-seven years 
among China’s millions? We rejoice that her name is 
ever to be remembered at Wooster by a missionary home 
for missionaries on fulough. This home was occupied by 
Rev. W. P. Chalfant and family, during the year 1911-1912, 
from Wei Heisen, China; by Rev. W. M. Hayes and family, 
during the year 1912-1913, from Ching-cho-fu, China. 


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THE MARY REYNOLDS SCHAUFFLER HOME 


Mrs. A. F. Schauffler, of New York, having visited 
Wooster, presented the University with $10,000 for the 
purchase and equipment of an annex to Westminster Home 
for the daughters of foreign missionaries. The University 
was given the privilege of using this Home for missionaries 
on furlough until such time as it was needed for the 
purpose for which it was originally given. Mrs. Schauffler 
named this home “The Mary Reynolds Schauffler Home,” 
in loving memory of her husband’s mother, Mrs. Mary 
Reynolds Schauffiler, who gave her life as a missionary 
to Turkey. The first missionaries to occupy this home 
were Rev. J. A. Eakin, D. D., and family from Petchaburi, 
Siam, and Rev. C. Borup and family from Saharanpur, 
India, for the year 1911-1912, the home being large 
enough to accommodate two families. During the year 
1912-1918 Mrs. W. P. Chalfant and children from 
Wei Heisen, China, and Rev. A. I. Good and mother, 
of South Africa, occupied the home. Mrs. A. W. 
Cooper and daughter from Rajaburi, Siam, and Mrs. 
Robert M. Donaldson and children, family of Rev. Robert 
M. Donaldson, D. D., Home Missionary for the Rocky 
Mountain District, occupy this home for the year 1913- 
1914. 












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THE HUNTER CORBETT HOME 


Mr. John L. Severance, of New York, a member of 
the Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board, has recently pur- 
chased a modern bungalow just east of Holden Hall, 
facing University Street, and has named it “The Hunter 
Corbett Home,” in honor of our veteran missionary, who 
is still in active service on the foreign field, Rev. Hunter 
Corbett, D: D;, LL. D. : 

Dr. Corbett was born at Leatherwood, Pa., December 
8th, 1835. He was graduated from Jefferson College, Pa., 
in 1860, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 18638. 
Immediately after graduating from the Seminary he sailed 
for China with Dr. Calvin Mateer, their voyage taking 
them 165 days. He will complete fifty-one years of active 
service in China during this year. On his most recent 
furlough, in 1906, Dr. Corbett was elected Moderator of 
the Presbyterian General Assembly. 

Mr. Severance has honored Wooster by establishing 
here a memorial to Dr. Corbett’s extraordinary service to 
the Church. It is hoped that he may have the privilege 
of living in his own home at Wooster during his next 
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THE CALVIN MATEER HOME 


Mrs. Dudley P. Allen, of New York, has recently 
purchased a modern home next to The Hunter Corbett 
Home on University Street, and has named it “The Calvin 
Mateer Home,” in honor of Dr. Calvin Mateer, who gave 
his life to China. 

Dr. Calvin Mateer was born on a farm near Harris- 
burg, Pa., January 9th, 1836. After graduating from 
Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., in the year 1859, and 
from Western Theological Seminary in 1863, he offered 
himself to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions for 
service in China. 

His first and greatest work was the founding and 
building of what is today perhaps the foremost Christian 
college in China, and which was begun by adopting half a 
dozen boys into his own home immediately upon his arrival 
in China. In the development of this college it was neces- 
sary to prepare his own text-books. The work of text- 
book preparation naturally developed an accurate knowl- 
edge of the Chinese language, as a result of which in his 
later life he was able to prepare the “Mandarin Lessons,” 
which has become the most generally used text-book for 
all students of the spoken tongue. He had grasped the 
principles of the language and as a result he was made 
Chairman of the Committee to translate the Bible into 
Mandarin. The New Testament was completed in 1907, 
and the translation of the Old Testament was begun by 
the same Committee. Dr. Mateer was working upon the 
translation of the Psalms at the time of his death. 

Dr. Mateer was not only a pioneer among the educators 
in China, but he was always an evangelist as well. How- 
ever, the natural cast of his mind was scientific, and this, 
coupled with his superior mechanical and inventive gifts, 
enabled him to prepare a very extensive and complete 
equipment of scientific apparatus for his college and at the 
same time to educate his pupils along the same lines. In 
his educational work it was always his aim to prepare 
his pupils for service as leaders amongst their own people, 
and in consequence many of the foremost positions in the 
Government and educational work of the country are today 
occupied by Dr. Mateer’s pupils. 

Before his death, which occurred September 28th, 
1908, Dr. Mateer said, “I expect to die in heathen China, 
but I expect to rise in Christian China.” 

We are especially grateful to Mrs. Allen for honoring 
Dr. Mateer’s memory at Wooster, where his sister, Mrs. 
Samuel J. Kirkwood, widow of Professor Kirkwood, and 
his brother, Dr. Horace N. Mateer, Professor of Biology, 
have spent a large part of their lives in the service of the 
college. 


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THE NOYES HOME 


During Mr. L. H. Severance’s stay at Canton, China, 
he became very deeply interested in the work of Rev. 
Henry Varnum Noyes, D. D., and that of his family, and 
after returning to America he purchased a _ residence 
opposite the college campus, on Beall Avenue, and named 
it “The Noyes Home.” It is now used as the residence of 
the pastor of the college church. 

Dr. Noyes was born at Seville, Ohio, April 24, 1836, 
and educated at Western Reserve University, graduating 
in 1861. He entered Western Theological Seminary the 
following year and graduated in 1865. He received his 
appointment to the foreign field in his senior year, 
November 7, 1864. Upon his arrival in China he became 
profoundly interested in educational work and realized 
that the church could never be firmly established in China 
until it had an educated ministry. He was therefore fore- 
most in developing upon the Island of Fati in Canton a 
group of institutions, which included an elementary school, 
a high school, an academy, a normal school, a Bible training 
school, and a theological seminary. For many years he 
was the president of these institutions, but after they 
became a development which called for separate adminis- 
tration he became president of the theological seminary, 
which post he held at the time of his death, January 
Ab aloe, 

Dr. Noyes’ two sons, Richard V. Noyes and William 
D. Noyes, graduated at Wooster and returned to the mis- 
sionary field to assist their father. Richard died shortly 
after beginning his missionary career. which gave promise 
of large usefulness. The other, Rev. William D. Noyes, 
is now a member of the Mission and the Principal of the 
Boys’ Academy with which his father was so long 
connected. 

Miss Harriet Noyes, sister of Dr. Noyes, began her 
life work in China in 1867. Another sister, Martha Noyes, 
who became Mrs. Kerr, began her work in China in 18738. 

Dr. Noyes was a kindly man, a devout man, a conse- 
crated man, a preacher, an educator, an author, a scholar; 
a man whose whole life was devoted to making the new 
China Christian China. 


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It is a beautiful thing to have these noble lives remem- 
bered in our church by these most helpful memorials. It 
is hoped that these Homes shall be the resting places of 
many of our faithful representatives on the Foreign Field. 
The church is most grateful to Mrs. Samuel Mather, Mr. 
L. H. Severance, Mrs. A. F. Schauffler, Mr. John L. 
Severance, and Mrs. Dudley P. Allen for such memorials. 

All these Homes are furnished with all necessary 
articles of furniture except silverware, table linen, bed 
linen and towels. 

These Homes are rented furnished at the small sum of 
$200 per year, exclusive of water rent, light and fuel. The 
rent is paid monthly to the Treasurer of the University and 
is credited as a trust fund for the maintenance of the Home. 

These Homes are rented but for one year, from 
September to September. Any correspondence concerning 
the Homes should be directed to Mr. Jesse McClellan, 
Treasurer, Wooster, Ohio. 


HOMES ARE NEEDED FOR RETIRED MISSIONARIES 


Those who have closely identified themselves with 
Missionary work have regretted to see how inadequately 
our church has been able to care for the veterans of her 
warfare. It is to be hoped that their needs will arouse 
greater benevolence in their behalf. We are glad to report 
that a woman deeply interested in missions visited Wooster 
recently and purchased a piece of ground 200 x 400 feet 
just east of Holden Hall, and placed the same in trust with 
The University of Wooster for the purpose of providing 
suitable sites for four missionary homes. 

This Christian woman knows that our Missionary 
Boards are doing all they can with the money the church 
sends them. She knows, too, that the Boards have nothing 
left to provide for those who fall in the fight, or those who 
are impaired by long and faithful service. It has been 
her hope and prayer that certain individuals might build 
homes on the land which her savings have bought, and 
that missionaries who have finished their work in the field 





might keep house economically in these homes and be under 
small expense for rent. This noble woman has laid aside 
little by little until she has been able to meet the expense 
of this property which amounts to $2,500. She has made 
a wise selection. It is the most beautiful site on college 
hill and within three minutes of the college chapel. It is 
our hope that now four other individuals may each volun- 
teer to build upon one of these lots a modest home of six 
or eight rooms with such conveniences as will make life 
comfortable for these noble veterans of the cross. It 
should not be necessary for missionaries when they have 
finished their active service to pray for death. We all 
owe them a debt, for they have carried our cross and 
fought under our flag. 


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